From the article, he had been hiding it from his wife for a while. After she saw it, she suspected diabetes, but he had resisted seeing a doctor due to the fear of a diagnosis. Lots of stupid stuff on his part. Not so many on the wife's.
I'll admit I didn't read the article, but I don't understand how this is supposed to work. If glaciers are responsible for the water supply, then if they don't melt, would these regions end up with no water at all? Shouldn't these areas be depending on current precipitation for their water?
Or to put it another way, if these regions are depending on glacier melt from water accumulated hundreds of thousands of years ago, aren't they going to be screwed sooner or later? Either the melt isn't high enough and they don't have enough water, or the melt is too high and they'll run out later.
It would seem like the only sustainable situation would be if the melt equals new formation due to precipitation.
Assuming you mean the old white plastic $1K model.. Well, old white plastic.
Assuming you mean the new aluminium model, the approximately same specs version for $1699 runs $300 cheaper than the low end $1999 15".
It was always the case that the MacBook was basically a Pro without discrete graphics. That's still the case for the $1K model even back when it was $1199.
Enable two-finger secondary click. Put two fingers on the track pad and click the physical button. It will register as a secondary click. No need to tap anything.
If you're working on a Macbook or Macbook pro, I find the "double-finger click" (whatever you want to call it) equally if not more convenient than having a right-click button.
I've been working on the Macbook Pro since it's been out, and it doesn't work worth a damn for me. I hope you realize that two-finger click isn't active by default and you need to activate it in the system preferences. I have a first-gen Macbook Pro and it works fine for me along with two-finger scrolling.
This is a good observation. I've long felt that Final Fantasy XI had the best story presentation of any MMO (at least up to and including WoW). But my problem with FFXI was that it was so hard to get in a position to see the story.
The grind to get your level high enough to be allowed to see the epic cutscenes eventually made me jump ship.
In contrast, it's pretty easy to see most of WoW's story. Storywise, my opinion is that it's a little less dramatic, but still entertaining to see. But most of the time, I was wishing they'd be a little more cinematic about it.
I can think of two ways to judge the success of a language.
1) If people use it. 2) If you can find people who will pay you to use it. And assorted corollaries: if people will hire you because you know how to use it, etc...
Given that programmers need to eat, I'd tend to go with the second though the two are basically related anyways.
I have an iPhone and I even *gasp* pay for AT&T service. So would it be all that bad if I used this to get access to my laptop instead of my iPhone? If anyone came by, I could just pull it out like a cross and say "back, foul wifi police, I'm an AT&T customer."
I am shocked! Shocked! To discover there's pornography on a computer. And students finding ways to cheat. And that there are students smart enough to hack the secure systems of a high school.
There are people who can't fill their 8 gig nanos and people who are stuffing their 80 gig videopods. Is there a realistic upper bound to how much space a person really needs to hold whatever media they care about between syncs?
It seems to me that this isn't just a case of flash finally getting cheaper, but also people potentially reaching the limit of how much data they need to carry around. Flash is getting cheaper, but in principle, so is harddisk technology. What it costs to get a 30 gig harddrive today, you can in principle use to get a 60 gig harddrive tomorrow.
So the question becomes not so much "I can get 32 gigs of flash for a reasonable price now" as "I have no need for more than X amounts of storage." And thus harddrives will eventually lose on the scale of what I need and how much I'm willing to pay for it.
When everyone is poor, no one steals from each other.
What do you base this on? If everyone's poor, those who steal from others are less poor. The only time I'd see this being irrefutable is when everyone's totally broke and thus no one has anything to be stolen.
It's not like people will think, "oh, you're as badly of as I am, we'll commiserate together." You'll have groups of people who think that way. You'll have the other groups who say, "I have X, he has X. I off him and take his stuff, I get 2X."
What was the reasoning behind the cheap laptops for third-world kids? If they somehow had software that would be useful for them, wouldn't the same apply to US schools? I agree that just because you have a laptop in class, doesn't mean it should always be on. But surely there's something it can be useful for. It doesn't sound like these districts have figured out what that is yet though.
Well, obviously, the alleged prostitute coudln't understand the concept that you get your bail back if you show up to trial. And if you make bail, you too get to go home. So it's not a problem with the legal system but maybe a problem with the education level of alleged prostitutes. I guess I don't need to use alleged since she pleaded guilty.
I'm not sure where this concept of rights comes from. Unfortunately, I can't cite a good source, but 99+% of the genes in that stem cell are going to be the same as any other person on the planet. Are you suggesting that because of that 1% difference, a person can lay claim or ownership? And if so, would his parents be entitled to 50% shares due to providing the source material?
IANAL, but can't the government do whatever it wants with anything by eminent domain? If the military decides that this application is the best thing for the job, I don't think there's any legal ground preventing them from taking it or forcing it to be licensed regardless of what the owners desire.
Then again, I'm not sure how that would apply if these guys aren't citizens of whichever government is doing the commandeering.
I was doing "live" programming competitions in high school. What exactly is special about this again? That they just happened to have a fancy setup and a live audience?
The majority of the programming competitions I participated in had multiple problems and, in the case of ties, whichever team produced their answers first came in ahead. At the easier contest, the majority of the problems could be solved inside 10 minutes too.
So can someone explain to me what was so interesting here?
Hmm. I could have sworn the initial post about the hd-dvd drive on the-magicbox.com listed a $199 price but now that I go back to check, it's not listed.
I'm pretty sure I'm not going senile yet, so I'm guessing someone corrected after I read it. My bad anyways.
Slashdot Mirror
Top Gun unless you've watched it in the original Klingon.
I guess there needs to be a new Slashdot abbreviation. WTEFV.
2:24 shows the actual layout.
From the article, he had been hiding it from his wife for a while. After she saw it, she suspected diabetes, but he had resisted seeing a doctor due to the fear of a diagnosis. Lots of stupid stuff on his part. Not so many on the wife's.
The party involved seems to be the US Marshals at a court house.
The TSA seems to be speaking only for themselves for airports.
Is this Florida court house also an airport? Or located inside an airport?
Am I having a problem with logic or is it the article?
I'll admit I didn't read the article, but I don't understand how this is supposed to work.
If glaciers are responsible for the water supply, then if they don't melt, would these regions end up with no water at all?
Shouldn't these areas be depending on current precipitation for their water?
Or to put it another way, if these regions are depending on glacier melt from water accumulated hundreds of thousands of years ago, aren't they going to be screwed sooner or later? Either the melt isn't high enough and they don't have enough water, or the melt is too high and they'll run out later.
It would seem like the only sustainable situation would be if the melt equals new formation due to precipitation.
X-Com! Star Control! Especially given that the most recent sequels were horrible.
Assuming you mean the old white plastic $1K model.. Well, old white plastic.
Assuming you mean the new aluminium model, the approximately same specs version for $1699 runs $300 cheaper than the low end $1999 15".
It was always the case that the MacBook was basically a Pro without discrete graphics. That's still the case for the $1K model even back when it was $1199.
Enable two-finger secondary click. Put two fingers on the track pad and click the physical button. It will register as a secondary click. No need to tap anything.
All these comments and no one mentions Sneakers? Google is Ben Kingsley!
"It's about who controls the information."
I've been working on the Macbook Pro since it's been out, and it doesn't work worth a damn for me. I hope you realize that two-finger click isn't active by default and you need to activate it in the system preferences. I have a first-gen Macbook Pro and it works fine for me along with two-finger scrolling.
This is a good observation. I've long felt that Final Fantasy XI had the best story presentation of any MMO (at least up to and including WoW). But my problem with FFXI was that it was so hard to get in a position to see the story.
The grind to get your level high enough to be allowed to see the epic cutscenes eventually made me jump ship.
In contrast, it's pretty easy to see most of WoW's story. Storywise, my opinion is that it's a little less dramatic, but still entertaining to see. But most of the time, I was wishing they'd be a little more cinematic about it.
I can think of two ways to judge the success of a language.
1) If people use it.
2) If you can find people who will pay you to use it. And assorted corollaries: if people will hire you because you know how to use it, etc...
Given that programmers need to eat, I'd tend to go with the second though the two are basically related anyways.
I have an iPhone and I even *gasp* pay for AT&T service.
So would it be all that bad if I used this to get access to my laptop instead of my iPhone? If anyone came by, I could just pull it out like a cross and say "back, foul wifi police, I'm an AT&T customer."
Almost every product has them. I think even the Zune has two.
I am shocked! Shocked! To discover there's pornography on a computer. And students finding ways to cheat. And that there are students smart enough to hack the secure systems of a high school.
There are people who can't fill their 8 gig nanos and people who are stuffing their 80 gig videopods. Is there a realistic upper bound to how much space a person really needs to hold whatever media they care about between syncs?
It seems to me that this isn't just a case of flash finally getting cheaper, but also people potentially reaching the limit of how much data they need to carry around. Flash is getting cheaper, but in principle, so is harddisk technology. What it costs to get a 30 gig harddrive today, you can in principle use to get a 60 gig harddrive tomorrow.
So the question becomes not so much "I can get 32 gigs of flash for a reasonable price now" as "I have no need for more than X amounts of storage." And thus harddrives will eventually lose on the scale of what I need and how much I'm willing to pay for it.
You mean like Mario Kart DS?
When everyone is poor, no one steals from each other.
What do you base this on? If everyone's poor, those who steal from others are less poor. The only time I'd see this being irrefutable is when everyone's totally broke and thus no one has anything to be stolen.
It's not like people will think, "oh, you're as badly of as I am, we'll commiserate together." You'll have groups of people who think that way. You'll have the other groups who say, "I have X, he has X. I off him and take his stuff, I get 2X."
http://www.the-magicbox.com/topten.htm
For 2006 through the end of October, 84,949 360s sold in Japan. 81,639 PS3s sold at launch.
From what I can find, there were 100K 360s sold in Japan in 2005.
So it looks like somewhere around 190K 360s vs 82K PS3s in Japan currently with Microsoft's 1 year head start.
Value Japanese sales in the greater scheme of things as you please.
What was the reasoning behind the cheap laptops for third-world kids? If they somehow had software that would be useful for them, wouldn't the same apply to US schools? I agree that just because you have a laptop in class, doesn't mean it should always be on. But surely there's something it can be useful for. It doesn't sound like these districts have figured out what that is yet though.
Well, obviously, the alleged prostitute coudln't understand the concept that you get your bail back if you show up to trial. And if you make bail, you too get to go home. So it's not a problem with the legal system but maybe a problem with the education level of alleged prostitutes. I guess I don't need to use alleged since she pleaded guilty.
I'm not sure where this concept of rights comes from. Unfortunately, I can't cite a good source, but 99+% of the genes in that stem cell are going to be the same as any other person on the planet. Are you suggesting that because of that 1% difference, a person can lay claim or ownership? And if so, would his parents be entitled to 50% shares due to providing the source material?
IANAL, but can't the government do whatever it wants with anything by eminent domain? If the military decides that this application is the best thing for the job, I don't think there's any legal ground preventing them from taking it or forcing it to be licensed regardless of what the owners desire.
Then again, I'm not sure how that would apply if these guys aren't citizens of whichever government is doing the commandeering.
I was doing "live" programming competitions in high school. What exactly is special about this again? That they just happened to have a fancy setup and a live audience?
The majority of the programming competitions I participated in had multiple problems and, in the case of ties, whichever team produced their answers first came in ahead. At the easier contest, the majority of the problems could be solved inside 10 minutes too.
So can someone explain to me what was so interesting here?
Hmm. I could have sworn the initial post about the hd-dvd drive on the-magicbox.com listed a $199 price but now that I go back to check, it's not listed.
I'm pretty sure I'm not going senile yet, so I'm guessing someone corrected after I read it. My bad anyways.